Toyo Ito talking with Hans Obrist

Via BienalleChannel

Nice interview, wish it was a bit longer though.

Imaginary Interview with Louis Kahn: Bomb Magazine

What a wonderful creative piece from a 1992 issue of Bomb Magazine.

EXCERPT Via Bomb Magazine

Reading the words of Louis Kahn 18 years after his death, we find the necessary antidote to the hollow rhetoric of the current situation. This “impossible interview” was compiled by selecting Kahn’s text first. Although the selection was personal and arbitrary, the choices were guided by a need to consider architecture as evidence of the success or failure of man’s institutions. In Kahn’s built work, we are forced to reconsider architecture in terms of a poetic reality that is integral to the material presence of his structures, and through his words, we can approach the source of this powerful magic.

Louis Kahn and his assistants working on Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh c. 1964. Photo: George Alikakos. All photos courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

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READ THE REST here bombsite.com/issues/40/articles/1548

Teddy Cruz Interview: Geo-political Borders

Teddy Cruz talking about his practice and Think Space. He is the juror on a competition Think Space is doing which asks entrants to examine and transform geo-political borders.

via Thinkspace

This competition calls for critical observations of border regions as laboratories from which to imagine new paradigms of urbanization and democratization. These critical thresholds amplify the politics of migration and citizenship, labor and surveillance, the tensions between sprawl and density, formal and informal urbanisms, wealth and poverty and the collisions between natural systems and political jurisdiction, exposing conflict as operational tool to re-think artistic practices.

via New York Times

Teddy Cruz’s housing proposal for Hudson, N.Y. The development would feature playgrounds, an outdoor amphitheater and spaces that could be used for arts or job-training programs.

Dreamspaces on ARCHIGRAM

Clip from the BBC show Dreamspaces

Tadao Ando talks with Charlie Rose

via CharlieRose.com

Great interview with Japanese architect Tadao Ando focusing mainly on the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art.

Toyo Ito with Studio BananaTV: Architecture as a Whirlpool

Toyo Ito talks briefly about his design philosophy and a few selected projects including the sendai mediatheque and the serpentine pavillion.

"Architecture should not be an immobile pole fixed in the riverbed, but the whirlpool of the river. The whirlpool behaves differently than the current of the river flow but keeps a relationship with the flow and transforms gradually."

Alain De Botton: A perfect home (Ep 3) Japan and Holland

The third episode from Alain De Botton's series A Perfect Home, based on his book, "The Architecture of Happiness". De Botton travels to Holland and Japan focusing on the relationship between traditional and modern architecture. Great show with in depth coverage of several houses including Kengo Kuma's Plastic House and Rietveld's Schroder House. I'll post the other two episodes in the coming week.

Documentary: Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque

Wonderful documentary on Ito's Sendai Mediatheque. After seeing how well the buildings in Yokohoma stood up to the earthquake it made me wonder how this gem is doing.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

 via observadora78